After receiving an inheritance, John Dickens was released and Charles was sent to the private Wellington House Academy in North London. He was an average student and left at 15 to work in a ...

They worked with many important artists and produced the actual blocks from which illustrations were printed for the popular and expanding book and magazine trade. A wood-engraved block from about ...

To commemorate Charles Dickens's historic trip to Lowell in 1842, UMass Lowell and its partners developed the Dickens in Lowell Project. Building on the success of our 2012 bicentenary community ...

Charles Dickens lived in the 1800s, the Victorian age. Life could be hard for children then. Many had to go out to work. At 12, Dickens himself left school to work in a factory putting labels on pots.